Mtambo is divisive figure exhibiting disturbing political identity crisis!
Let me begin where I will end: Minister of Civic Education and National Unity Timothy Mtambo is exhibiting a disturbing political identity crisis that, I shudder to think, will surely cost him his well fought for political capital.
You see, Mtambo started off as a militant civil rights activist while heading Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC).
He made his name by being apolitically correct, choosing to side with the struggle of the people than donning hardcore political colours.
However, when he ditched HRDC and formed Citizen for Transformation (CFT) movement, Mtambo went deep into frontline politics when he endorsed and fully supported the Tonse Alliance.
If we heard him right while forming his political movement, Mtambo’s main political end was to remove the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) from power.
In other words, he wanted to remove the DPP from power through working with Tonse Alliance partners without submitting to political ideals of the partners.
The strategy really worked as he managed to capture several Malawians who had lost faith in the behavior of their respective political parties.
However, as of today, Mtambo needs to sit down and reflect his political journey because the dynamics that got CFT started is fast waning.
As already argued, CFT was formed to help remove DPP from power. With DPP out of power, it means CFT’s mission was accomplished; as such, CFT needs to redefine its political relevance especially in the context of Tonse Alliance.
In fact, it’s Mtambo and CFT’s failure to clearly redefine itself that is why Tonse Alliance key partners, MCP and UTM, are at loggerheads in Karonga Central Constituency.
As we all know, Mtambo took quite a controversial decision to support MCP’s candidate Leornard Mwalwanda in the coming Karonga Central by-elections over UTM’s Frank Mwenifumbo.
There is nothing wrong with Mtambo exercising his political choices but there is something terribly wrong when an alliance partner chooses to form another alliance within an already existing alliance. Its sounds like betrayal.
If Mtambo didn’t want CFT to field a candidate in Karonga Central, he would have left CFT members to decide on their own whom, among contesting candidates, they should silently support—just as what other alliance partners have done.
By publicly endorsing support for MCP candidate, I feel like Mtambo wants to use CFT to broker his political glory.
He just wants to be in good terms with MCP and President Lazarus Chakwera for political goodies to continue flowing to his side. That, to me, sounds like political greed and opportunism.
Mtambo has already gone to great length campaigning for MCP in Mangochi, even apologising for the past atrocities of the one-party dictatorship.
Given a platform, all I can tell Mtambo is: register CFT as a political party, field your candidates and contest with fellow alliance partners in that regards. He must not play a civil rights activist with political colours in a political game. It’s called opportunism—quite a bad political etiquette.
Let me, then, end where I began: Minister of Civic Education and National Unity Timothy Mtambo is exhibiting a disturbing political identity crisis that, I shudder to think, will surely cost him his well fought for political capital.
Mtambo is deeply divisive figure.
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WHEN PEOPLE ARE WRITING AGAINST MUTAMBO,IT MEANS THEY DO NOT HATE HIM BUT,THEY ARE TRYING TO CORRECT HIS WRONG PATHS THAT AT TIMES,WILL TURN AGAINST HIM.YES,IN A FEW DAYS HE HAS DEMONSTRATED SOME SORT OF POWER GRABS IN THE SENSE THAT HE IS EVERY WHERE IN THE COUNTRY PREACHING OVERZEALOUS TESTAMENTS THAT HAVE NO SENSE ATALL.INSTEAD OF WORKING TO UPLIFT ECONOMIC TRENDS FOR THE MOST POOREST PROVINCE IN MALAWI.FOR INSTANCE,RUMPHI CHITIPA ROAD IS STILL WHAT IT USED TO BE DURING COLONIAL RULE.IT IS NOT FAIR TO BLAME PEOPLE WHO ARE CRITICISING MTAMBO’S BRAINLESS TRENDS.MIND YOU,MALAWI IS A DEMOCRATIC STATE SINCE IT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM BANDA’S BLOODY REGIME.MTAMBO,SEE TO IT THAT PROGRESS IS ALSO COMING TO THE DEAD NORTH WHERE AS THE PEOPLE THERE TOO,SACRIFICED THEIR GOLDEN-BLOOB LIKE OTHER PROVINCES IN THE COUNTRY.ALUTA CONTINUA,VENCEREMOS.
Which is the most poorest province in Malawi?
Mike Fiko will not change. Multiparty Democracy allows people to excise their political right to associate. Definitely Mtambo will never support DPP like all of us will never. Leave Mtambo alone. Mwasowa nkhani zolemba
Mtambo this, mtambo that, this is not worth of news, mtambo anali kale, pano wangotsamwa ndi ma banz
Tikambe mu chichewa kuti aliyense amvetsetse. Ine ndimachokera ku Phalombe ndipo nkhani ya Timothy Mtambo yi zambiri apa ndi NSANJE osatinso china ayi.President has not appointed you to be any cabinet minister and both the President and Vice do not know you please! Do not waste your time with all sorts of rubbish. Leave Mtambo freely and perform his duties.We know you voted for Nkhalamba yokuba but both him and yourselves failed.
He is useless and greedy
He is a useless guy! Does it mean tonse alliance govt are angels that need not to be corrected in their governance? these ppo were just jealousy of dpp nothing else. if he wanted to keep his fame he would have remained non partisan koma iiiiii chindele chakufwikapo ananena late Bishop Susa bcoz he is betraying malawians. He cannot support mcp candidate if anything he better choose to shut up his mouth thats it like achitira PP, Umodzi, Mafunde, etc
One of two situations. 1 Either you had been asked to write something negative about Mtambo and have been a very bad job about it. You need to know that its very difficult to write bad about a good or 2. You are intellectually barefooted. You can hardly put you facts to support each other coherently. By the way if you are a professional writer don’t write about people because you hate them. It shows clearly and it spoils your work.
Ma minister a ku Malawi ngati sing’anga. Kkkkkkk
Mtambo is useless demo politician
Wanzeru ndani tsono? DPP ex-ministers wakuba choponyerapo mpira?
Umbuli sungathenso ngati umenewu.
Those of us who were there at High court in Blantyre to see Chakufwa Chihana know that; dont overweigh popularity. After Kamuzu, popularity of Chihana started going down. it went down together with Aford. My point is Mtambo is finished. His ministry with be reviewed shortly.
Achitsiru a Mtambo awa
I cannot say I have todate been impressed with his performance. I would like to believe that CTF has a membership of people who have diverse political affiliations but the way the man has behaved lately is in a manner of a confusionist and could cost him and the alliance politically.
One ndimangodabwa mpaka lero mwa anthu onse m’Malawi muno a Chakwera ndithu akasankhe nduna Mtambo. Kutopa ma demo? Now will Chakwera one day have the audacity to remove him as a Minister? Tikaona
People, please stop anaylising other peoples’ choices unprogressively. Mtambo is a minister, head of a government ministry. Why not judging him on his work in the government other than what party he chooses to affiliate with? Besides he doesn’t have to take advice from you to register a party when he knows that it wouldn’t make a difference. Fiko , if your concern was genuine you would have raised matters which he needs to tackle in his ministry as a minister – you wouldn’t have wasted our time with this ndowe.
What’s controversial about supporting another alliance candidate other than Mwenifumbo who was in cahoots with UDF just a fortnight ago?
If not for the untimely demise of the incumbent MPC MP, this seat rightly belongs to MCP for this term.
If the alliance partners are acting in good faith, why would UTM want to make gains on MCP’s bereavement? Why not let MCP field the alliance candidate?
The behavior of UTM is unbecoming and stinks to high heaven. Don’t bring the DPP mentality of entitlement and cause confusion to the Tonse Alliance. Go back to DPP.
The seat is vacant otherwise if it belonged to MCP there would be no need for by elections. Infact MCP has lost that seat to UTM tikungodikira nthawi basi
Yes you are 100% right utm was not supposed to field their candidate coz the set belongs to mcp
Is it CFT or Mtambo. If is Mtambo then he is just exercusing his right. Remember bot MCP and UTM are in Tonse alliance but both parties have fielded candidates
Forgive him, he is homosexual and violent this one. Even his cft and hrdc friends have come to realise he is a psychopath. I wonder how he manages to propose to his gay lovers. Not worth following. Nyasatimes give us a break, will you?
You are just jealous with him, who told you that there is permanent things in this life we are living? Inuso tangoyambani zanu mulowele nazo ku DPP kwanuko!
Mtambo is a confussionist. If this guy doesn’t know, Malawians now are fully aware that they were being used for his political mileage.
Here he is now, a complete pupet of the MCP, while he joined as an alliance partner.
Bulshit politics done by mtambo.
Does Mtambo realize that UTM members within the alliance government regard him as a traitor? How does he expect to work well with SKC with such open show that he hates UTM. If he does not like UTM can we think of him liking SKC? I agree with the author that Mtambo is indeed very divisive.
Sometimes you choose to be stupid.Its you with this animallistic and invalid writing who is divisive not Mtambo.You were silent when he was fighting the foolish DPP government.Stupid you go to hell.
YOU ARE RIGHT PAL
I think you dont get well the post, its about his character within an alliance. To be honest, the best he should have done is keep quiet and now he is showing which side he is in the alliance. If it were in Karonga only we would understand, but he is still doing the same mistake in Mangochi by campaigning for MCP, a traitor indeed. He is digging his own pit, he will fall in it.